Booing 2 Championships during the top 10

[Andrew Schreiber]

Originally Posted by Siri

Okay, I'll say it after I read this: I think FIRST disrespected the community. I don't think this has anything to do with the topic at hand, and you're free to disagree with that interpretation, but understand that nothing they have or could do now changes what they already did then.

I'll second this. FIRST has disrespected the community more and more over the years. The first time I really noticed it was 2012 when Bill Miller stood up at a regional and told teams that all comms failures were the fault of the teams and the FMS was perfect. Then Einstein happened.

Over the years it's become more and more apparent that, not only is HQ out of touch with the reality of a community that has grown up around their program, but that they frankly don't care. They pay lip service to the volunteers that keep their program running but then don't listen to them when they raise concerns about things like overworked refs last year or the importance of feedback on the Chairman's presentation.

I skipped the Town Hall meeting because I thought I knew what it would be; More lip service about more open communication. From what I heard, it was worse than that, it was outright disrespect to the people and teams that should be the best representatives that FIRST has.

Frankly, if FIRST continues down this path and all we do is boo at a bad joke during an Einstein that was nearly 2 hours behind schedule, I'll be shocked.